Poetry @ 3

Thursday 12 January 2017, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Follow in the footsteps of Byron, Shelley, Milton and Andrew Marvell! Come and perform your poems at the Poets’ Church.

Open mic for poets who like to come out and play during the day. Hosted by The Poetry Society’s Paul McGrane. No booking required, just turn up. Sign up between 2.30 and 3 to read. Free. Donations for wine.

St Giles-in-the-Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, London, WC2H 8LG – just a very short walk from Tottenham Court Road tube. Known as ‘The Poets’ Church’. Poet John Milton’s daughter Mary was baptised in the Gothic brick building in 1647. Two memorials inside the church commemorate George Chapman, the translator of Homer (buried outside) and politician and poet Andrew Marvell. The children of the poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley (the author of Frankenstein) were also baptised here. Twitter: @stgilesfields

Take EXIT 4 (Charing Cross Road)

Follow the pedestrian signs and after a few yards cross at the traffic lights

Turn left (if you look across the road you’ll see the spire of St Giles looming above the rooftops!)

At the next traffic lights, cross the road again and head for Denmark Street – just a few yards ahead